Title: WordPress in general
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress in general

 *  [jk499](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jk499/)
 * (@jk499)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-in-general/)
 * Am I missing something? After reading First Steps with WordPress, I am completely
   confused. It says that when I log in to administration, a dashboard will appear.
   It does. But it doesn’t show what First Steps says it should: Write, Manage, 
   Links, Presentation, Plugins, Users, Options, Logout (name. What am I not understanding?

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-in-general/#post-1247734)
 * I would be willing to bet that First Steps was written before the big change 
   in the dashboard layout. The new layout is very intuitive so just be brave and
   poke around. Posts are up top on the left hand side, along with the other main
   panels (Pages, Appearance, Plugins, Tools, etc.). The panels should be along 
   the left side of your browser’s viewport. The expanded area (for writing posts
   and pages and working with plugins occupies the larger right side of the screen.

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